I don't know why I needed a cable - maybe to make a pretty module that can easily be plucked out of the simpad for improvement, so that everytime I had to solder/unsolder stuff on it, I could do that easily without risking frying the simpad motherboard :-)

Thanks for clarification, but I would like to see the output of `ls -la /mnt/mmc` at least

What particular brand of card do you use? It would be interesting to see tests of reading/writing from/to MMC simultaneously with high I/O activity of CF card to see if there's any timing problems under stress conditions. Someting like mounting NFS/SAMBA volume over CF wired/wireless link, and then do something like this:

Either way, so far I was not able to do anything useful with this card on Simpad. The card has a single primary partition type 6 that is formated FAT16. It works fine in my cell phone, notebook and two different Zauruses.

It looks it's able to read card's physical parameters sometimes, so wiring must be correct. Any idea what could be wrong?

I'll try to find some old Sandisk 128MB SD card that I have somewhere and give it a try too.-albertr